I can't think of any other examples on the bus right now, but I wasn't watching The Wire to find out whether or not McNulty was gonna catch Stringer or not. True Detective Season 3 isn't the first genre show/film to be about something other than that genre is known for.


In a season that's playing off the first season in so many less than subtle ways from inside jokes to specifically including Rust/Marty in a future scene I think it's cool that the detectives' personal lives have taken a significantly larger chunk of the screen time than the mystery, especially since the characterization and acting is so upper echelon.


I think True Detective 2 made it clear Piz is more interested in the characters than the mystery, too, it's just that Cohle was such a mysterious character it made the whole thing feel more sinister and perplexing than it ultimately was. Not sure that's a trick he can pull twice.


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